The Federation of the Native Communities of Medio Napo, Curaray and Arabela (FECONAMNCUA) held its 2023 Congress from March 16 to 20 in the town of Santa Clotilde in Loreto, Peru. Communal authorities and leaders from 33 communities participated, as well as representatives of public institutions and civil society.
In order to generate spaces for dialogue and decision-making to strengthen the governance of indigenous peoples, the Federation of Maijuna Native Communities (FECONAMAI) was invited to join, through its president Rúsber Tangoa, who shared the objectives and challenges of your organization in the face of threats to its culture and territory.
OnePlanet and Law, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), informed the participants about the impacts of the Bellavista – Mazán – Salvador – El Estrecho Highway Project, which threatens collective rights, biological and cultural resources, as well as ancestral lands of the communities of the Maijuna and Kichwa peoples.
Both indigenous federations share the vision of conserving their traditional cultures, closely linked to forests and rivers; and they express their rejection of the project that does not consider their right to Prior Consultation and to be informed in a pertinent manner regarding the serious and irreversible cultural and environmental consequences that threaten their communities.